Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

Lex Borghans, Ben Kriechel

NBER Working Paper No. 13210
Issued in July 2007

---- Acknowledgments ----

This is the Dutch country study for the forthcoming volume "Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility: International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms" edited by Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw. The authors want to thank Bart Golsteyn, Joan Muysken, Erik de Regt, and Bas ter Weel, the editors and an anonymous referee for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. We thank Statistics Netherlands (CBS) for making available the "SSB Banen" data set, and especially Jan Jonker, Gerhard Meinen and René van der Poel for their support in accessing and using the data. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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